The establishment of Canterbury Community Primary Health Organization (PHO) evolved from a gathering of interested not-for-profit parties which were exploring ways of working collaboratively. One aim was to formalize this arrangement by forming a legal entity which had constitutional powers and objectives so the collective could contract with a range of funders to provide essential services. Members wanted an environment driven by its values, to ensure planned and responsive services to improve the health of its enrolled population and improved access to those who had been disaffected from accessing appropriate and affordable front line primary health services.

In June 2003 the Canterbury Primary Health Organisation was registered as an Incorporated Society. Current members: Union & Community Health Service (Te Kahukura and Piki Te Ora Centres), 198 Youth Health Trust, Tanagata Atumotu Trust, New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, Hepatitis C Trust Te Waipounamu, Family Planning, NZ AIDs Foundation, Roger Wright Needle Exchange Programme , Royal NZ Plunket Society (Canterbury), Te Rito Arahi, He Waka Tapu and Epilepsy NZ .

The Executive Committee is comprised of membership representatives of the following sectors – Maori (1), Pacific Peoples (1), GP based services – privately owned (1) - currently vacant, GP based services – community owned (1), Community groups (2), Other health professional (1), and Consumer representative (2). Nominations for these positions may only be made by groups for the sectors they identify with. Vision To be a model of excellence in primary heath care; be accountable for what we do; honour the Treaty of Waitangi in health; to implement the key direction of the New Zealand Primary Health Care Strategy. Mission To provide high quality, accessible, affordable and culturally appropriate primary health care to low income people, and other at risk populations, in a way that is efficient, effective, collaborative across the health sector and financially sustainable.

The idea of forming a group or forum of interested organisations to look at present and future energy issues in (greater) Christchurch came up at a committee meeting of the Christchurch Power Consumers' Society. The idea was further discussed with Roger Sutton, of Orion, who was interested in the feedback that the CPCS might be able to provide on consumer preferences with regard to some of Orion's targets. This concept document suggests a way of developing these ideas. The concept is of informal ties between organisations involved in energy in the greater Christchurch area, which would work together (mainly by e-mail) to:

• identify energy issues that affect Christchurch, now or in the future;
• prioritise these issues;
• work out ways of handling them in the best interests of the community.

City Care is in the business of construction, maintenance and management of New Zealand's infrastructure and amenity assets. With operational bases in Auckland and Christchurch, City Care is able to provide contract services to local authorities and other major asset owners in two of New Zealand's main regions. Core competencies of the company include:

• Water and wastewater network inspection, maintenance and construction,
• Parks, trees, turf and waterways maintenance, and landscape design and construction
• Road construction and maintenance
• Waste management and amenity cleaning
• Facilities management City Care employs more than 500 staff, and has sales of almost $50 million.

Community Probation Service, Public Prisons Service and Psychological Services make up the operational arm of the Department of Corrections. Community Probation
a) Prepare reports for Judges and Parole boards to assist with decision making in dealing with offenders.
b) Supervise offenders sentenced to community based sentences of community work or supervision
c) Supervise offenders released from prison, either on parole or home detention.

The Department’s primary outcome is to protect the public by contributing to safe communities and reducing re-offending.

Child, Youth and Family works with families and other agencies to:

• Protect and care for children and young people
• Help families maintain and strengthen their child-rearing role
• Bring about changes for troubled and troublesome youth
• Provide residential care facilities.

Service 1 New Start - An intensive home visiting service targeted at multiple problem families. New Start is currently this country's only service of its kind, catering for chronic offenders and their families which targets the young child as the primary client.

Service 2 - Safer Families - An intensive home visiting service targeted at multiple problem families. Targets high-risk pregnant women, receiving referrals through lead maternity providers.

Both services aim to prevent harm to children from happening by providing intesnive, long term homebased social work support to those families whose characteristics make them more likely to abuse and neglect their children. Services are designed to give such high risk families the skills to adequately parent their children. Services begin ante-natally and continue until the enrolled child enters the school system. In over 11 years of service to high risk children, no child receiving our services has been injured through parental abuse.

The overall purpose of He Oranga Pounamu is to ensure that the health and social service needs of all Maori living in the Ngai Tahu tribal area are responded to in an appropriate way by bringing whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori community development into relationship with health and social service provision. He Oranga Pounamu has a key role to play in the integration and better coordination between providers delivering health and social services to Maori aligned with a broad vision for Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu.

He Oranga Pounamu has two key roles. The first is to work with Crown agencies funding health and social services including employment, education, housing and justice to improve the allocation of resources and maximise the gains for Maori. He Oranga Pounamu's new Strategic Plan ratified by Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu focuses on maximising five key areas over the next 5 years. They are: - Accurately profiling the Maori community - Increasing whanau income - Continuing to support Maori Provider Development - Enhancing strategic relationship to maximise benefits for all Maori - Enhancing organisational development

HFWT works to support women with their housing options by:

• Rental Housing Development – for women who are seeking safe and affordable housing
• Accommodation Service – for women who wish to share their accommodation with other women

David Griffiths
Regional Manager
3750928
david.griffiths@hnzc.co.nz

For further details, you can contact any of the following offices:
Papanui 375 0928
Riccarton 375 0929
Linwood 375 0909
Aranui Information Centre 375 0926
National Contact Centre 0800 801 601
Welcome Home Loan 0508 WELCOME HOME (0800 93 52 66)

Canterbury Westland Free Kindergarten Association is an Incorporated Society dating back to 1911. Trading as "Kidsfirst" it provides high quality early childhood education and care to approximately 5,000 children and their families in Christchurch, Lyttelton, Lincoln, Burnham, North Canterbury and West Coast Regions. Currently 63 centres come under the umbrella of "Kidsfirst" offering sessional or full day education and care to children aged between 3 months to 5 years of age.

Registered teachers are employed to deliver high quality education. Professional development plays an important role within the organisation to ensure that teachers continue to enhance Kidsfirst Kindergartens is viewed by the Education Review Office [ERO Report dated November 2004] as a progressive and high performing organisation which delivers on its core values to:

• To colour learning with fun
• To encourage the joys of discovery
• To fill young faces with wonder

Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research is New Zealand's foremost environmental research organisation specialising in sustainable management of land resources optimising primary production, enhancing biodiversity, increasing the resource efficiency of businesses, and conserving and restoring the natural assets of our communities.

Landcare Research is one of nine independent Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) founded in 1992 from a reorganisation of Government funded research in New Zealand. We have strong collaborative links with other CRIs and universities so we can use the most effective combination of skills on each project. Our researchers are supported by sophisticated technology, analytical laboratories, and specialised support such as legal and graphics services, communications and business development, and an extensive specialised library.

Facilitating community development in Addington. Together asa community we create a network of information, resources, sharing, and daily support through a variety of interests. We have a family community development worker available for individual and group support for the Christchurch South area.

We are open Monday – Thursday from 9 am – 2 pm We provide daily and weekly activities in the morning including:
§ Playgroup – Tuesday (Tuesdays are women only days)
§ Craft group – Tuesday
§ Therapeutic Massage – Tuesday
§ Men's group - Tuesday
§ Shared lunch – 12 pm Wednesday
§ Mobility Exercise – Thursday
§ Toy Library – Friday & Saturday
§ Outings for older adults ; 3rd Tuesday afternoon monthly
§ Out and About; monthly

Vision: A commuity where men are supported to move beyond the limitations of male stereotypes and discover, express and live their own truth.

Mission: "To support men to discover and express their own truth" We are working to create a new caring, supportive and authentic male culture and offer the chance for men to create meaningful lives.

Through our weekend courses Mens Trust provides a community that allows men to move beyond the limitations of male stereotypes and discover their own uniqueness.

The Mental Health Foundation’s mission is to improve the mental health of all people and communities in New Zealand. To achieve this mission the Foundation uses a mental health promotion approach. Our core service areas include:· Mental health information via our National Information and Resource Service and our Depression Awareness Campaign “Out of the Blue/Kia Marama www.outofthe blue.org.nz·

Reducing discrimination against people with experience of mental illness (Like Minds project)· Suicide prevention information New Zealand (SPINZ)·

Policy advice and network development· Workshops Mental health promotion for businesses, NGOs, etc (Working Well).

Our Purpose The Ministry's influence on education outcomes is indirect. We are not a provider of education and our purpose reflects this: "Te Ihi, Te Mana, Te Matauranga - Empowering Education" Education enables people to gain knowledge, skills, and attitudes so they can participate fully, socially and economically, in the community.

Our role is facilitative rather than directive. We empower through our leadership, management of the infrastructure, problem-solving ability, and assistance of those at risk of underachievement. What we do influences the motivation and focus of the sector. We need to work with parents, teachers, and education managers to encourage, support, and enable them to use their energy, motivation, and skill to greatest benefit. We need to foster a policy environment that enables educators to operate effectively and learners to participate and achieve. We need to ensure we are creating a system that can respond quickly and effectively to wider social and economic impacts and the needs of different communities, society, and employers.

Our Mission : "Raise achievement and reduce disparity"
Quality education enables individuals to achieve their full potential. Expectations rise each year. Educational achievement levels of all students must continue to increase. At the same time, there are currently significant differences in the levels of educational achievement between groups in our community. It is the Ministry of Education's responsibility to tackle these disparities, as well as to raise the overall level of educational achievement.

Further information about how we will achieve our mission and goals can be found in the Ministry of Education's Statement of Intent for 2005-2010 (including the Department Forecast Report).

Our goal is to reduce the incidence and consequence of fire and to provide a professional response to other emergencies by "Working with communities to protect what they value"

The Transalpine Fire Region of which Christchurch City is a part covers approx. 6.5 million hectares. It contains two fire districts which are manned by paid fire fighters (Christchurch and Timaru). Within Christchurch fire district, paid fire stations are sited at Harewood, St Albans, Christchurch City (Kilmore Street), Woolston, Addington and Sockburn. Volunteer stations are sited at New Brighton, Summer and Brooklands. Areas outside the city e.g. Lyttleton and Diamond Harbour are manned by volunteers.

Firefighters not only attend fires but also a raft of other incidents including motor vehicle accidents, weather emergencies, hazard substance incidents, medical assists. Specialist teams e.g. Urban Search and Rescue play a valuable role at the scene of an earthquake or complete buildingcollapse.

As well as the emergency work, firefighters work daily in their communities to prevent fires happening in the first place. They work in partnership with the community e.g. schools to deliver effective fire safety education so people understand the risks and ways to prevent fires and then take action in the event of a fire. Fire fighters also inspect commercial buildings to ensure people can evacuate from them safely.

Firefighters are supported by a regional team: administrative staff, fireengineers, fire safety officers, volunteer support officers, promotional and education officers, all tasked to develop, support and coordinate strategies and resources and provide specialist assistance. Public referrals can be made to the free specialist education and intervention programmes e.g. the Fire Awareness and Intervention Programme for juveniles who light fires inappropriately and the Community Liaison Ambassador Safety Project to educate and protect the most vulnerable groups in the community about home fire safety.